Davies has got from somewhere some information about hypnosis and wants to get either film or a book to learn how to do it :lol:. Aware of what a crazy idea this could be ‘you are feeling very sleepy, when I click my fingers you will be appauled by the very idea of your laptop, your fingers will not move over the keyboard and your eyes will hurt when you look at the screen. 3 2 1 you’re back in the room’ he doesn’t seem to be giving it up any time soon. So I’ve done a quick google to find some childrens books or films on the subject and found a series of books about Molly Moon which I’ve reserved at work but I think they are more stories than a how to guide which is what he is after.
Anyone got any ideas?
In the words of Monty Python: Run away!
I’d be exerting my “sod autonomy” approach i think 🙂
Trip to see Paul McKenna? Ask parents for tickets as educational experience? 😉
Yeah, it’s a crazy idea. I don’t think that a 6 year old should be trying to hypnotise anyone.
Errrr yeah, I agree with Alison and Merry. Seems a mental idea and would get a no in this house. Christ, he’d being doing age regression on everyone and getting them to paint walls with ash etc etc…..NO NO and NO.
New Portico House rule…..no kids who can hypnotise.
Oi, stop posting as me 😆
He seems pretty adamant, I’ve not mentioned it to him but he asked me about it again tonight. I asked why he wants to know and he says he just thinks it would be a cool thing to be able to do and he’d only use it on ‘baddies’.
Have ordered the story books from work, maybe hearing about some fictional character who can do it will suffice, but I fear it might not 😆
Well teach him fucking Jedi mind control or a Vulcan death grip or something. I doubt he’d be able to learn hypnotism anyway, but if somehow he could, really, don’t you think that would be completely ridiculous?
Just tell him it’s for adults. Christ, if he came to you and said he wanted to have sex, would you be going, “ah, the wonders of an autonomous education” and hiring hookers?
Blimey. I’d not really got as far as thinking for one momemt he’d actually be able to do it, but then I know sod all about hypnosis. Someone once tried to hypnotise me in a lock in in a pub with a load of other people but I was ver’ ver’ drunk and just giggled until they sent me off the stage. I suspect that is simply one area of hypnosis anyway the stage version.
I’d not really got it categorised with sex, the occult or other inappropriate for his age type topics really tbh. He’s obviously seen it referenced somewhere and is curious about it which seemed fairly reasonable to me. And in his usual way when he wants to know about something he wants to know *all* about something.
I wasn’t seriously thinking about signing him for lessons but I will quite happily find more information on the topic for him and it’s nothing to do with autonomy, simply answering a child’s fairly normal (to me) questions about something a bit unusal that he’s heard something about and wants to know more on.
Your post did sound like you were looking for a ‘hypnosis for dummies book’ rather than just some commentary on it. I think hypnosis is a very powerful tool. It gives the hypnotiser power over the subject and for that reason alone demands, imo, a level of maturity from the hypnotiser. I always feel very uncomfortable with those who use it to make people pretend to be chickens etc.
See I am still me. Or you.
You’re the one who said he wants a how to guide.
Oh, there was a {shrug} in there at the beginning.
I did didn’t I – just read that back. See he’s controlling me already 😆